Posts tagged forms

2013 was an exciting year for LiveCycle. I want to take a moment to update you on how we are continuing to invest and innovate in forms and documents, and provide an overview of our 2014 plans. In 2013, we introduced LiveCycle ES4, a major release that extends rich form and document experiences to mobile users. Shortly afterwards, we began integrating these capabilities into Adobe Experience Manager, enabling organizations to easily create, manage, and publish forms and documents in conjunction with a market leading web content management solution.

Arun Anantharaman, the Senior Vice President Adobe Digital Marketing Products, shares more about the 2014 plans, in this blog post.

Want to learn how to work with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) Forms and Documents, powered by Adobe LiveCycle? Adobe TV has a great series that will get you up to speed in no time!

From Adobe TV:

“This video series introduces AEM forms and documents powered by LiveCycle. It demonstrates how to develop applications to capture and process information via forms, communicate with customers, and secure documents.”

In this article we will use JQPlot charting capabilities to draw a pie chart.To Learn more about JQPlot- click here The charts data will be coming from the table which is designed using the LiveCycle Designer. We will also be exploring the FormBridge API’s to access the Table’s data to feed into the JQPlot chart.

LiveCycle ES4 saw the (re)introduction of Form Manager. In simple terms Form Manager simplifies the process of managing forms. The official documentation for Form Manager can be found here. Once you have your required forms in Form Manager, you can start to build and manage Forms Portal.

To know about both the ways to build forms portal, read the complete post here.

In this post, I’ll address a use case where in profile you want to access data from the rendered form. Sometimes, you might want to access metadata associated with the form. You can add metadata to the form using the Form Properties option of the File menu in LiveCycle Designer.

A common use case is to let the end user select various fragments to insert in the final PDF. The screen shot below would better explain what I mean by this. AS you can see this screen captures some user information, and allows the user to select fragments that need to be inserted in the final pdf. When the user hits the submit button it will call a LC process which will parse the parameters and build the DDX needed for XDP Stitching. The Process makes use of a custom component called xmlUtilities which allows you to insert elements in an xml document. The input parameters to the process are the name,city,address,state,zip and fragments. The fragments variable will hold a comma separated list of selected fragments.